Portland's Meltdown: A Progressive Experiment That 'Has Gone Colossally Bad'
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2023
- The West Coast city of Portland has long been known for its wacky, weird counterculture. TV comedies have made fun of it. But a growing number of Portlanders aren't laughing anymore, as a once great city has become dangerous and unlivable.
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The People of Portland KEEP VOTING FOR POLITICIANS WHO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. Let them have the utopia that they want!!
The people voting for democrat politicians are like locusts.... they make decisions thinking it's for their own good, but after the destruction they simply move many miles to the next location and repeat the process... still voting the same way thinking it's for their own good.
The Communistic, Socialistic, and Progressivistic morons of Portland don't realize that they are the undesirables the Eugenicists and Green Religion people want erased from the Earth. Yes, it's about money and the homeless industrial complex, but you have to realize, this is all being done on purpose to eliminate large swaths of undesirable bottom feeders.
This is also about rich progressives being able to buy once prime real estate for cheap. The elites believe that one day a stop will be put to all this and just like magic, they will own the prime real estate as things are fixed. The problem this time is that the whole economy and banking system is about to collapse and it will get so much worse. Please please please people, get your families prepared with food, water, and supplies now before it's too late!
Let’s face it Oregons vote by mail is rife with corruption.
Spot on....true words....
Do they really? Or is some other entity deciding who wins the vote?
Our country is a complete joke. Crime isn’t punished, Violence is ignored and all the while it’s law abiding tax paying citizens who suffer. What’s the point in buying a house? Or a car? Or even raising children if you’re forced to live in a dystopian state. The people need to stand up and say enough is enough.
Your country is a joke, I will agree with you on that
@@jasonpapai Yeah, the US has been a joke to the rest of the world for decades. It's insane that the citizens are only just realising...
HA!! They’re the ones who voted this mess in!
@BJustChillin420 420, huh? Listen up, drug addict. YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM.
And people are punished for defending themselves. Democrats and progressives did this to Portland. Do the smart thing and stop voting for them.
When a tent is considered a home the city is ruined
hey hey hey.. the city is "progressive."
Pioneers lived in them, Nomads lived in them. 😅
unemployed homeless in places like India, are still cleaner, more hygienic and less drug use. 1st world country compared to so called 3rd world country.
The video said at 0:52 says many of the tents you see are supplied by Multnomah county. taxpayer dollars to promote an "experiment" gone awry
lol
As someone who has called Portland home since 1998, I can attest to the rapid decay of our once-beautiful city. The saddest part is seeing people continue to vote for the same failed policies that got us into this mess.
Lol
I dont feel sorr for you... liberals gave an entire country of South Africa to terrorists and now it has the murder rate of a warzone and cant even generate electricity because everything is being stolen.
If you ask me you dont have it bad enough
Maybe their vote doesn’t matter because they’re PLACED and not voted in
They don't even need you to vote for them. Just your long dead grandma
😢
What is so sad and pathetic is that the politicians refuse to see it or even care.
You can barely get a building permit for all of the zoning laws, fire codes, building codes, and regulations, but live in a tent on the sidewalk? No problem.
The scary part is they're trying to do this to the entire country.
Ya pretty soon even people like you will be tweaking on the street.
Totally.
yes..but the problem is they don't enforce the laws..
@AboutThatLIFE not really. U will catch a charge if u try to defend yourself.
Already done to half the country
In the mid 90's, the slogan was "Keep Portland Weird!" which was a glib code for "It's ok to smoke pot here". 30 years later and now it's crack, fentanyl, opiates, heroin, whatever. And the consequences are atrocious.
This is what they say about Austin TX scary 😳 hopefully the people that live Austin see what keeping it weird means before its to late
@@edithsaenz2378 yeah, and Asheville, north Carolina. Every state has some bohemian college town that revels in immaturity with no foresight of long term consequences
Louisville, KY same bumper sticker
So pot is a gateway drug. Wish I knew that before.
Same as Austin Tx. That slogan bring every hop head and weirdo from all over. Its too bad because Austin was beaytiful. Now its a cesspool of mindless drug addiction and liberals who are also mindless
The fact that the reporter states that Portland “is now” conducting street sweeps through homeless encampments and immediately suggests that maybe Portland might turn a corner soon is such a great self-exposure of just how ignorant this journalism team actually was. News flash: they’ve been doing sweeps for YEARS, and they do about as much for the cleaning up of the city as one single application of deodorant to about 1/4 of one of an armpit does for body odor. Street sweeps are the politician’s go-to move when they need people to think that they might really be trying to do something. Literally everybody who is even slightly involved with those decision makings knows that street sweeps do absolutely nothing for any more than a week, at best.
Nice job CBN. Remarkable research and work 👍
Man attacks and hits person.
Waitress: “Here sir, have some coffee!”
Man: "Thanks for the ammo!"
The citizens keep voting for this. It’s a sickness. Same here in WA
SO.................Liberalism is a Mental Disorder?
Wokeism is a planned Mind Virus and classic communist psyops. You do not conquer this nation from the outside, you conquer it by infecting it from within. This is exactly what we are witnessing make no mistake.
I used to want to move to Seattle but not anymore. I'll stay here where I was born in Texas where my freedom remains.
East of the cascades needs to be greater Idaho.
Gov Inslee is trying his hardest to bring Seattle down to match Portland as fast as he can. What scares me is how western Washington keeps pushing for it.
The people of Portland, Oregon have voted for this. Good luck to all of you.
The election was rigged.
😂 🖕Portland!
Getting what they deserve
How come you never hear much about Kate Brown. She has literally allowed Portland to die.
Problem is that it's like having food go bad in your fridge, you'll have to deal with it eventually.
Portland is actively producing crappy, messed up people now, and probably it's going to get bad enough that they'll all leave and go where it's nice, which is where you live.
The term "Progressive" is absolutely insane...this Ideology is incredible Regressive. Detroit is a living example of the fate that awaits all "Progressive", Liberal, Democratic Cities...
And now you have an introduction to what "doublespeak" is...
Not totally true. I agree I do not believe in helping people who don't want to help themselves and there are,such as Detroit and Baltimore etc, Cities that do. I'm sick of it. I want it to stop. I vote Democrat still though. Politics is bigger than one belief. I have looked at both sides views. I will continue to vote Democrat.
@@user-cx3jn7cq8e Having decided to vote Republican after looking at both sides myself, I'd like to hear your thought process in case I missed something.
There needs to be some sort of order before the disadvantaged can be helped. They don't seem to agree with that idea.
@@ilovejettrooper5922And now you have an introduction to what “denial” and “cope” is 😂
It's incredible that they thought legalizing drugs would work out in any way shape or form
It's what happens when you elect a bunch of 60's hippies to lead you.
drugs arent legal there, thats the problem. the cartels still control it. and the drugs are still cut with unknown even more dangerous chemicals.
Timothy Leary Types😡
I live 30 minutes from Portland and it's crazy how some of the surrounding towns have little to no homelessness simply because those people deliberately choose to go to Portland, it's a war zone over there and it's attracting people who WANT to do drugs and commit crime without getting convicted. I refuse to even drive through that hellhole
Don't worry...social problems as the result of poor policies are like water...they eventually overflow into the surrounding areas.
The law abiding citizens must rise up to take back the cities because the politicians have all but tied the hands of law enforcement.
Needs be sorted we have same here in London
Just like Phoenix in Arizona
My son and his family used to live in Northeast Portland. There was homeless there too. They decided to move back to the east coast thank God. Found a beautiful home in North Carolina
This is exactly what happens when there is no consequences
being ultra-conservative on crime actually works. just as being ultra-rightwing on immigration..
@@mortenovergaard7397 To a certain degree, but crime is also cultural, which means that there will always be crime in some places and among certain demographics no matter how hard or soft authorities are.
It's also pretty clear that the more homogeneous a place is the less crime there is.
@@mortenovergaard7397 except that all the conservative cities have even higher crime rates
@@aaronbeat1136 pretty clear? Got any data to back up your claims?
Doesn't help when you have a Soros bought DA.
Don’t forget that the citizens vote this way. Don’t feel sorry for any of them! They continue to consistently vote for the same!
Elections have consequences Oregon Portland especially is a prime example
Or was the election stolen? I have heard of that happening.
Saw an anti American sign :
We hate America: America should be Nukd
What about those who don't vote for them? It's incredibly frustrating to be living in a place where the majority keeps voting for the problem and no matter how many times you vote against the problem, it just continues the wrong way.
Is this part of the depopulation plan?
And they will never admit they were wrong.
A lot of places are like this now
Blame the Democrat's !
I don't feel sorry for any of them in Portland except the few that don't vote Democrat. I bet a lot of the business owners voted Democrat and still do. Its sad when people get use to this kind of degradation and obviously the majority of people in Portland do or they would vote the Democrats out. You get what you vote for.
Bus them all back to the opium addled red states where they came from. Problem solved.
To many Libtards ruining the country
Votes don't matter, vote counters matter.
Looks like a bunch of liberal states are circling the drain and well on their way to becoming like the city of Portland.
You’re looking at twenty four years of Cheat by Mail and sanctuary state since ‘86.
I went to Portland, Oregon, in the early 2000s. It was a quaint, clean, city, then. I couldn’t envision this nightmare. How can anyone like the results of progressivism. It’s disgusting; there’s no other words for it!
So sad. Just 9-10 years ago it was a very special place.
The city is losing its tax base with so many businesses leaving. What will happen when they can't pay their bills anymore?
Hopefully it will be a ghostown.
The federal government will bail them out. They're leftists in Portland and DC will rescue their homies.....on our dime.
real simple! they go down
They'll clamor for reparations or a federal bailout.
the feds (via the rest of america) will bail them out!
When you realize that a perpetual (homeless, housing, drug, mental health, etc.) crisis is really a constant flow of money... it starts to all make sense.
I wonder if the city and county officials receive federal funds to rejuvenate the city, but pocket the funds. That is what I’ve heard they do in cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit.
Plus a homeless person may be easier to buy their vote with money/drugs.
The ACLU started the homeless epidemic by declaring state run sanitariums concentration camps. Now the ACLU lawyers live in gated communities while the rest of us have to deal with open air mental asylums. Which are far crueler than properly run state hospitals were.
HIC, The Homeless Industrial Complex is thriving and they will fight to keep the gravy train rolling
Watch Inherent Vice. Great movie - with a premise that if you provide the drug supply infrastructure through private enterprise, then force taxpayers to pay for all the rehab, you basically get money throughout the lifecycle of a user.
It is like a post apocalyptic movie except instead of road warriors you have drugged zombies. The politicians that encouraged this should open their residences to some of these people.
I'm 100 percent okay with cannabis being legal, but I am fed up with hard drugs being legalized in Oregon.
Your attitude is what causes this. You put the line behind YOU. Your bad drugs are ok but someone else’s is not….?..?
It’s not hard to feel that the people who voted for these politicians, kind of deserve this.
But you feel bad for the ones who didn't vote for it. Kind of like half the country right now.
@@josephcox6632 They need to get outta there.
Not hard at all. What gets me about it though is that they will move to a red state and still vote blue... stupid never learns.
They absolutely do! This is what they wanted and voted for 🤔👌
@@josephcox6632 well why feel bad for the people who caused it........stop it...get help
I have family that live in Portland and they seem more interested in constantly defending the city and it's policies than actually acknowledging reality in any way. Like so many other things going on these days - it's a total disconnect from physical reality. What you 'believe to be true', 'what you want to be true' does not override what is actually true.
I live in Portland and that's exactly what I see, well said.
Post politics, when emotions & personal beliefs are more important than facts.
Sad to say they are owners of the problems.
Are you talking about my aunt and uncle 😂😂😂😂 lord they are soo delusional
"Reality is a social construct."
So sad. I lived in Portland in the 90s. It was amazing then--- a beautiful, fun city. This breaks my heart.
I'm sorry to hear that. 😔😢 It's definitely disheartening to see how things have changed over the years.
It wasn't an "experiment" it went exactly how it was intended to pan out.
They want whole America like that
@@club4ghz
All part of the plan ?
Most of Oregon, the conservative counties east of the Cascades, has started a campaign to be annexed by Idaho. Long road ahead, but can’t blame them for wanting to leave the insanity instead of helping to fund it.
As Portland sinks further and further into their NeoMarxist Dystopia, and lose their tax base as good citizens and non-woke businesses flee to more sane locations, the City Government of Portland will do what failed Marxists ALWAYS do--sink their parasitic fangs into the lifeblood of prosperous, free, productive cities in other parts of their State.
Marxism only lasts as long as it has a source of OPM (Other People's Money)...
I pray they succeed and secede.
Exactly I saw that on Dr Steven TURLEYS CHANNEL
Oregon is gone. Unproductive are being attracted, productive foot the bill. Oregon is unviable.
Unviable as in not your slave dog?
The new definition of insanity is voting for the same thing and expecting different results then fleeing and voting for the same thing elsewhere.
Amen to that best comment on this whole thread of comments and ive been looking at them for 20 mins. NOW
You just called out the problem across America. These feel good liberal policies don’t work, never did and never will. The problem is over half the country is brainwashed and has zero critical thinking skills, nor the ability to admit when they are wrong.
*the "enlightened" residents vote for the same people promoting failed policies as their city continues to crumble and decay around them whilst insisting that defund the police, transgender policies and blame it all on Trump have top priority and are at a loss as to why things are the way that are so they blame it on everyone not thinking like them or aligning their agendas with their own as being racist...kinda hard to have sympathy for self styled idiots dancing in a burning house*
Reminds me of Atlas Shrugged.
Don't go to a RED state and vote the SAME LEFTIST - MARXIST DISEASE in.
You vote for it: you live with it.
👍
I live in LA but I cannot imagine living in SF, Portland, or most of the Northwest, where harm reduction has failed. Tragic.
So...harm reduction is a success in LA then? **softwhiteunderbelly**
LA is the same😂😂😂
I used to work downtown as a 20 year old female , walked everywhere never had problems never felt in danger. Completely destroyed disgusting and unsafe now😭
How long ago was that? Did this change just happen in 2023?
If you are liberal you should have not left
@@hurricaneq8411did you not watch the video he said it happened after the Floyd riots. This was all democrat policy.
@@richardhenry1969 thanks for answering my question. I’ll even take the extra 2 cent. Thanks for looking out
How do you vote? Red or blue?
Michael Moore oughta make a documentary on how great the policies he dreams of are in this city.
Nah, he made a few mill and he’s got his....see ya
Yes give them all guns!
Well now that sure won't help out the narrative.
Nah, Michael Moore is to busy eating & drinking while watching the view from his multimillion dollar lake home.
Which surrounded by a ten foot fence...White upper middle class progressives liberal leftists sure love walls around their property.
Is that Jabba the F*cktard still alive?
I JUST SOLD MY HOUSE IN PORTLAND AND MOVED! HALLELUJAH
I was born and lived in Portland for most of my life (1996-2019), before ultimately moving to the midwest. I was never really a fan of the city's motto and always expected things to escalate. Hearing about the stories of my friends and family, who decided to stay there, really depresses me and I sincerely hope, that they'll manage to keep those out of office, who were responsible for all of this mess. The St. Paul/Minneapolis area has it's own problems, including rapid rise of wokeness, but it's nowhere near as bad as this
I will never go to Portland again! I loved that town with it great stores, restaurants and parks! When will people wake up and realize they are the reason their cities are being destroyed by the liberals they keep voting in! If you want change… vote for change!
Because people would rather their city burn than to repent and admit progressives were wrong.
It's going to be hard to get them to change
They should build a wall around OR and let them have it, soon it will take care of itself.
We tried 50 years of locking up drug addicts, it didn't work, they get out and use again. Please come up with a solution other then bussing your addicts to our city, pointing at us and laughing and washing your hands of the problem.
Are you certain that they are voting this insanity in repetitively ?
This is 100% being done on purpose, it’s happening in numerous cities around the country
I agree and I think the same thing regarding the LGBTQ community
George soros
@@eire3215 Global terrorist #1
For what purpose??
@@JRMiracleman A global crisis will have the masses demand a global solution, conveniently the globalist tyrants have been salivating to provide them with a global government, military and religion since at least ancient Babylon. Welcome to AntiChrist preparation 101. Time to repent and trust Christ before he returns to judge the quick and the dead.
Same thing is happening in Kensington Philadelphia PA, since Fentanyl and Tranq are now in epic crisis mode 😢 It's all over America and no end of drug abuse and addiction, homelessness, mental illness in sight😢!!!
Was such a beautiful place, like paradise. Spent most of my life there born and raised. I think it started going bad when Occupy/ Martin vs Boise happened and encouraged people to live on the streets.
Lived there. EVERYONE I knew voted for the governor and mayor even after the riots that went on for months. It is a dangerous place, I moved to a red state, vote red, and my kids and I now feel SAFE. Remember, the Portland residents voted for all this.
But our disinformation terrorists in the media told us those were "Mostly Peaceful protests" not riots.
Lol the alternative was Sarah Iannarone. I kind of wish she got in, she's a real leftist nutcase
I hope you now feel safe with your head in the sand.
I live in Hillsboro, and voted Republican. So there are still some sane people living in that area.
Over 100 days they lasted
Sure took them long enough to figure out it wasnt working.
How many businesses moved out of that once beautiful city now an enema.
It’s not being “slowly destroyed” - it’s already a place to never go to.
When even Walmart leaves a city completely, you know that city is in a world of hurt.
Actually, not having that dumpster fire a business in your city is a bonus.
@@zendakk How? Great place for good deals on almost everything and they price match if you show them an item that costs less than what they are selling it for
@@OverRule1 If all you care about is your own pocket, sure.
@@zendakktry elaborating, it might help your side of the argument
@@aftabansari9723there is no side to his argument.
Drug and alcohol counselors aren’t going to make a dent when Portland is enabling all these people.
50 years and billions of dollars for locking them up didn't either, what is your solution other then bussing your problems away like the red cities.
The drug and alcohol counselling also enable them .
California : No one is gonna be as messed up as we are ....
Portland OR : Huh? ... Here ... hold mah beer...
Portland OR: Here... hold this nasty, flat skunk-water...
Many years back I lived in Portland, Or. It was a nice place then. A friend and I used to race his car at the track in North Portland. Now I can't get through there fast enough and hope I don't get shot, robbed or my car stolen. Their local government has collapsed and fallen into a pit where there is little hope of recovering from any time in the near future. Sad to see.
Name a single Progressive Experiment that HASN'T gone colossally bad...
They must really want this cause they never looked at what they did and realize they are wrong
@Freeherenow How would those compare to what you see now in Portland?
@@freeherenow52 SS = Bankrupt
Medicare = failing
National Parks system = pricing the public out of land they have free access to by right
FDIC = failing
Affordable Care Act = unaffordable for most, but forced to pay anyway
Anti-Trust Regulations = unnecessary
Ban on child labor = wasn't a progressive policy, nice try
Environmental and wildlife protection laws = haven't worked, take a look around
Aid to Families with Dependent Children = broken welfare system
EITC = bankrupt
FDA = corrupt, overregulated
Try again.
Let's start with the protestant revolt which cracked open the floodgates of all this degeneracy. It began as a trickle, progressed to the French revolution, the deposition of kings, the allowance of usury, secular republics and legalization of baby murder
@@ralphpal They always just blame the bad parts on Trump and the woke media backs them up.
Thank a liberal
Sadly this is occurring in so many American cities now.
I'm sorry, it went bad, good luck Portland. Bless you, try do . Recover
I grew up in Portland and left in 2018. Ten years ago it was a fun, safe and beautiful city. I worked overnight shifts downtown for years and never felt unsafe walking around by myself. By the time I went back to visit last year, the city looked like some kind dystopian wasteland. Tent cities, cars on fire, drug use in broad daylight. Got news that my aunt was found dead in a tent there a few months ago. That city is a horrible, ugly place now and I would strongly discourage anybody from living there.
New Ohio
Same here in San Diego… This has nothing to do with Portland’s decriminalization. The same thing happened all over the country.
@@Ryan88881 Mostly, it is happening in the very blue states, counties or cities. Those are the places that decriminalize drugs, homelessness, are soft on crime, have catch and release practices and sanctuary laws. They have no idea who is living there, who is moving there and who is dying on a regular basis. From San Diego to Seattle, you won't see the leftist elite's neighborhoods without police or with homeless encamptments. All of that is for the peasants and peons to live with.
Sorry for your aunt and home, wish you the best.
The entire USA is and always was a dystopian wasteland, just now it caught up with another tiny pocket of "safety".
I grew up in Portland but I can't recognize what it's become. Real shame. More businesses need to leave. Locals need to speak with their votes and throw out the progressive elements from local offices. Absolutely nothing will change until people start standing up to this kind of thing.
It's too late for Portland time to build a wall around to keep them contained.
Those Democrat voting business owners don’t need to leave. They aren’t welcome in my State.
No real family values. Going backwards instead of progressive.
All these people need to stay there, breed there, and have their Marxist/Leninist indoctrinated offspring live there in perpetuity. NO ONE WANTS THESE PEOPLE IN THEIR STATES! THEY VOTED FOR ALL OF THIS, NOW LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES! We do not want our states turned into this garage. These people move and vote EXACTLTY how they voted here...
I think it's mindset...In Portugal everything is legal...They do NOT have a huge drug problem, in fact drug use in Portugal has gone down since everything was made legal!! I suppose different peoples handle things differently...Portugal has it's problems but drug use is no longer a major one...So why is it so different for you guys?
Like the thing with the Dutch, most of the natives do NOT smoke weed and the Dutch are the lowest users in all of Europe, but it's legal, right? So again what is happening in terms of response to legalisation I don't know but i think again it comes down to mindset and environment...
I also think the covid period did not help as it created more addicts than usual in the west and alot of people lost alot...
I was in Portland for the first time in December for a youth convention. I did not tour the entire. But as bad as the place was, OKC is worse to me.
As my teacher said in universty, measure of knowledge gained is measure of cost of it. Portland has great knowledge about many things now.
You know you’ve hit a new low when Walmart refuses to operate in your city
@Armed Liberal Huh? How did you...this can't be real, right? That's what you got from his comment? Seriously?
Gold lol
The Walmart in Pittsburgh (Waterworks) closed down because of theft.
They've been closing in many cities and there is still a Walmart right down the road in Vancouver. It's better in Vancouver, but if someone wanted to target Walmart. They could still go to one that's 20min down the road in WA from Portland. 😅 You take that story too seriously.
@Armed Liberal It was irony you dummy. Cuz walmart suck, that is the point.. lol.
Embarrassed to say I’m from Oregon. Moved out of Oregon eight years ago. Best choice I’ve ever made!
Another IGNORANT comment. But I'm glad you left. People with brains will stay and take Oregon back.
But it is NOT Oregon, go thirty minutes outside Portland and it gets very red very quick, one congressional district that borders Portland is +13 GOP. Portland has just grown so big from California and East Coast immigration it politically can out vote the whole rest of the state, same thing in Washington with Seattle and Colorado with Denver. These people flee California with all its problems then vote the same way.
Me too! Amen! Miss my home the way it used to be 40 years ago. I had to get my kids out of there.
Nebruin how about counties start seceding from the state if this is the type of cities we are going to get under Democrat leadership.
@@SoferiaNebruin Really? Talk about ignorant!
Used to be nice. Lived and worked there in the 1980s. Old Town was even having a revitalization
WOW !
If you had a society that people wanted to live in and felt valuable, then drug addiction would be less attractive.
Doing the same thing and expecting different results is an insanity of epic proportions.
Like 50 years and billions spent locking up drug addicts, that didn't work either. We tried something new knowing it might not work. I knew it would get worse before it gets better as our drug laws would attract this crowd from every state in this country. Does that somehow make a "red state" better because we took their sick and tried to help them rather then ignore them and hope they die in a dark alley? For nation that pretends it's a Christian utopia, all I see is hate for their fellow man. Not very Jesus like if you ask me.
Even with all this concrete evidence they'll still find a way to blame anyone but themselves.
The state of Oregon changed the moment they changed to mail in voting. Turned the state from red to blue in a matter of a few years.
Cheating with no oversight.
WA state too. Mail in voting needs to end.
Same in AZ
Same in California
NJ but have a choice to do it or not PA changed. Should be federally illegal.
What a catastrophe
Born & raised in Portland. Left 4 years ago & I would never go back. My depression went away immediately when I moved outta that 💩💩
Legalizing possession of small amounts of drugs has increased drug abuse, overdose instances, crime rate and homelesness? Who could have seen that coming?!
Whosever idea was to legalize drugs in Oregon must have been on crack.
@@panowa8319 It's the same people who believe that trans women are women.
People keep saying that homelessness is caused by "voting for policies", but then you fail to name any specific policy because your comment is purely based on political affiliations and has nothing to do with the actual factors that cause homelessness. Greed and capitalism is what causes high home prices as the wealthy buy up property everywhere without regulation; unaffordable housing prices causes homeless; and homelessness causes severe depression which leads to substance abuse. The same people who claim that problem is caused by voting are also the people who contribute to the problem by voting against legislation that prevents the wealthy from price gouging the marketplace which causes homelessness in the first place.
Define "small."
“Open-air insane asylum” is the most accurate description possible. What’s worse is the realization that this mayhem is contagious and ruining the lives of everyone including children and future generations. We all must accept responsibility for putting an end to this madness.
always thought that the reason that the addicts use dope out front in front of everyone because if they did it in the ally someone would rob them
Need a floodlight with a bat on it.
@@ddoherty5956 Not a bat, but instead a skull is needed. Punishment is needed. Some actual instant irreversible final results done on a massive scale.
Get rid of the lunatic liberals and the madness will end !
@@spleenslitta7595 I keep saying there needs to be an investigation into the bank accounts of city and county officials. Are they getting federal funds meant to improve the city, but pocketing the money?
I can't believe what has happened to my beautiful perfect city I cry when I see it now I use to take virtual tour when I got home sick how can anyone let this happen what a nightmare 😮😢
3:08 I can't believe I used to work there. A family member of mine and other coworkers was chased by a man wielding a katana. Can't make it up. Stay safe.
I live in Portland since 1998 and everything in this video is 110% true. No embellished or exaggerated at all.
If anything this video is a understatement.
I am sure you continue to vote for Democrates.
I'm a Denver native, I can remember Colorado when it was a red state. We like to follow Portland's lead on liberal policies and I've slowly been seeing us turn into the dirty cesspool Portland is.
@@Letsdive64 What makes you think that-?
Not everyone there is liberal....
If you live in Portland then can you explain why is it so bad? If policies don't work then why don't the people rise up in their government and say that something needs to happen (like Justin Jones)?
@@Mike-jv4rz Because a conservative wouldn't keep living there, they'd GTFO.
That is hell . When you take God out of a city, what is left? Absence of peace, hope, justice, law and order. Tragic chaos
AMEN.
Yes every Godless area is on the decline very fast.
You took the words right out of my mouth! ❤
So True! Amen!
I grew up in SoCal and we moved out when I was 14. My Dad said that California is the great democrat experiment that has failed miserably.
Virginia is also suffering from progressive experimentation - albeit not nearly as bad as Oregon YET. Virginia is too close to DC for comfort.
Florida can't bail the whole country out so you better do what you need to do now!
WV has offered some Virginia counties the ability to join,
and Western Maryland counties have asked to join WV.
@@francismarion6400 yes, I hear how nice FL is everyday on the news. Never a mentally ill person or a shooting, no drugs to be had anywhere, right?
@@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 WV? LOL. Stop lying. Everyone in WV is unemployed, on food stamps, meth or heroin. No jobs or economy to speak of.
Taxes too high, Thom Hartmann for this, urban renewal, slum clearance. Consider it, recovery. Rest in peace, fix my car
Decay is a gradual and exponential process in nature and society.
I’m a bus driver in Portland. Seeing this everyday takes a toll on you, we all just turn our head to what’s going on. We blame most things on a officer shortage, maybe I should apply. Send help!
I feel Sorry for you Friend, what a Stomach Turning Site Portland and Seattle are now. Now Joe Biden is allowing one drug even worse than Fentanyl into America, TRANQ a Flesh Eating Drug. America's Big Democrat Run Cities are open Sewers of Zombies waiting to die on the Streets of our Big Cities. Crime is Rampant now forcing Big Box stores to close and move out of the Cities of Drug Addicts. Without the God of Abraham, America is fast coming to a end, just like ROME, we are now History as Mankind thinks they are bigger than the God of Abraham..
You could have a million officers but it won't matter if criminals don't get charged
Just leave
Hate to say this young man I really do coming from a fellow American trust me nobody's coming to f****** help nobody nobody when has the government ever come and help everytime they say we're here to help it gets worse what do you know look at your in now you did it to yourself.
No I'm telling you if you're not on drugs in your normal person move no one's stopping you but when you do remember how to vote with your brain that with your ideology.
Can't fix stupid see you willing to stay there and ask for help but no one's coming.
Lol
Suck it up put your big panties on you're going to need it.
Maybe go to the root of the problem-- Democrat Politicians you guys seem to jst love to vote for. Say you get more cops. You think cops want to risk their lives policing people who are useless and worthless?
Portland tried to do the Christian act by helping. The problem is red states shipped their social problems, rejects and outcasts to Portland , Seattle, Eugene, California. These places are overwhelmed. It's not an officer problem. It is a problem of other places not addressing their problems, but shipping them to someone else.
My cousin lives there. There was a homeless man showering in her backyard with her garden hose. Then he took a picture of her house. The cops basically told her to just accept it and get used to it. She’s in the process of moving…
If she voted democrat, she must stay.
Cap em
The worst part is the devaluation of the house. You pay taxes to fund your safety and protection and it basically leaves you at a net loss for having to move.
I pray for her safe move.
No, she voted for this, she can stay.
Jesus. If you look at all of this,not just Portland,the US is becoming frighteningly feral. People acting like animals,and even fighting with the police in NY.
I cant believe I've lived long enough to see this happening.
It's been like this for over a decade
Was in Portland 2 weeks ago on Business. Saw a guy with a needle in his Arm ,Pants down around his ankles completely Empty his Bowels on the sidewalk in front of a Restaurant. The whole town looked like a Zombie Apocalypse. Told my Boss I will never go back there
😅
The river of bumpiss is now a raging torrent.
my boss called me a p*ssy for being scared of crazy homeless people chasing me around in PORTLAND
And with good reason, I'm a Trumper.
@@LLLLLP0 get away from your psycho “boss”. Do not ever tolerate disrespect and abuse. It gets much worse. That’s probably how these people became drug addicts!!!
People of Portland make sure during the next election you run right to the polls and you continue voting democrat
they are the same as chicago Liberals or Democrat will just put a Blackman or Blackwoman and its a landslide.
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They will, the brain washing runs deep
They won't because they're stupid and legit brain dead.
Hear hear, what would foolishness be if we didn’t preserve it.
Where do these people come from?
Even Walmart thought itself too good to stain itself in that pigsty...
I'm a third-generation Portlandian... the city I grew up in is gone and I had to flee it. Worked downtown on both sides of the river and saw firsthand the carnage. One of my buildings has been set on fire multiple time (one summer 3 times) because of the homeless cookouts feet from our back door... It is so sad to not recognize my beautiful city anymore 😢
Let me guess. You vote Democrat.
If you voted Democrat, you deserve the outcome. Yes, it's sad, but you created it. Try to accept some responsibility. I am beginning to have ZERO sympathy for people who voted for this crap.
@@royery what part of what I said suggests that??? Let me clarify, I HAD TO FLEE MY HOME TOWN because of what was voted in. I have no idea where your heads at to assume I'm part of the problem, please give me some insight into how you arrived at this crazy conclusion.
@@brucebarry1204it’s the way to talk so articulately🤣 I thought the same thing but who knows
I'm a 4th generation Floridian, my state will never look like this, we have the best Governor in the history of the United States
Sadly, Seattle is on a similar trajectory. Unbelievably sad and tragic.
Summer of love ☠
Vancouver, BC, too.
I visited Seattle in 2019. It could have been great. I will never go back due to the homelessness problem and people pay 30% sugar tax to help "fix" the homelessness issue. My husband and I were walking to get coffee one morning. We didn't look like tourists or anything. On the short walk, we were accosted twice by homeless individuals, but they were accosting everyone walking the sidewalks Each was talking crazy. We found an officer. He did nothing because he said he wasn't allowed to do anything. Government there is WAY too big.
Los Angles as well.
@@karendavenport6824 Im a Seattle native and in the 90s I used to walk downtown at midnight with no weapons and felt safe..I wouldnt even walk downtown during the day without a gun now..its crazy..LOL, and no Ive never voted democrat in my entire life.
That’s the second time I’ve heard open air asylum today
Everywhere. And it's breaks my heart.
I was in Portland working a few months ago, it's so sad what has become of Portland. The policy makers are corrupt, and incompetent at best, This is so sad and unacceptable.
The drug addicts are weak and corrupt as well.
The policy makers were voted in!
They are not "corrupt." This is all by design. This is what they want. It would be nice if they were just corrupt, you could just vote them out and everything would change.
@@MarketAndChurch Biden and the rest of the demonrats(democrats) want all of the US to be like Portland, its their main agenda.
The people running this city are anti-whites, there policy is designed to destroy white society and its working. Its really out of hatred for white people.
I live in Idaho and personally know 6 families that have fled Portland in the last couple years. I really really hope they don’t vote for the same garbage that got Portland (Seattle, SF etc) in the place it is
You part of the redoubt retards?
Lol, sadly we all know they will vote for the same garbage that is destroying the west coast
I worked in Utah in the summer of 08 and did some field work in north Idaho. Idaho is so beautiful once you get north of Boise. Hopefully, the Californians and Oregonians don't mess up Idaho and Utah.
They might just do it. These policies are what happens when people don't bother to imagine the results of "feel good" policies. They could easily avoid the necessary introspection and just continue in relatively unconsciousness. Sucks!
Don't count on it. These idiots think "hey this time it'll be different".
Aiding addicted people in their addiction is not compassionate, it is sadistic. Helping others with their own self-destruction is evil.
Exactly, it's enabling them, and I'm a former addict myself. I don't see how any of this is supposed to help anyone. Drugs and drug use SHOULD be illegal
Amen!
Clearly shows that they could care less about people who are suffering from addiction
@@JustAdude291 agreed, including the 2 worst- tobacco and alcohol
They will get drugs anyway. Why shouldn't they be able to get them easily. Cars are far more dangerous than drugs.
10 months later after this video was made and Portland has gotten worse.
I lived there 20 years ago, just sad is all I can say.
I used to live there 26 years ago, it was a beautiful city. Visited a couple years ago and couldn’t believe what it has become, brought a tear to my eye. This is the result of living your life with no consequences. This is why there has to be rules, laws, and law enforcement.
yes, I also used to live there and I am at a loss on how the people of Portland would ever put up with this hell
Happening everywhere the far left are in charge. Albuquerque, NM used to be a top third city, now its almost dead last. Had to flee two other left wing cities when they turned into slums. Your vote doesn't count if you are surrounded by insanity.
lived there for years. one of the best places ive ever lived at the time. went back a year ago to visit and it was a dystopian nightmare. all of my old friends there just silently agreed but wouldn't say it out loud because they have been trapped into thinking this collapse is ok and if they dont let the criminals run amok then they are bad people for wanting a safe place to live. they could clean sweep the whole place in a month if they wanted, theres something bigger at play. you dont demolish an entire city in 2 years for nothing.
YES
Socialism is a mass hypnotization tool used specifically to engineer a genocide or destroy a country from within.. it has no real plans after that....
💯🎯💯 It seems the people are being mentally conditioned to just bendover & take it instead of protesting at City Hall etc. Yes this is all on purpose & other demCities are doing the same like Chicago, SF, LA, DC ... they want this & I think they want migration of ppl out of the cities. Maybe to change the maps of Red, Blue & purple?
Bingo
Exactly! I’ve seen too much here to not agree with you!
What are you thinking Portland ⁉️ As a former resident it makes me sick. Did you actually think drugs allowed would be a good thing❓ Having lived in Hawaii and Santa Barbara CA
Portland was my favorite. Last time there was 2001. Will never go back. You blew it big time ‼️🤪👽
This is sad, i spent a few days in Portland in April 2019 whilst skiing at Mt Hood and I thought it was a beautiful city. Can't believe how quickly it's gone downhill
I'm so happy for the people of Portland. They voted for exactly what they wanted. Good for them and congrats!!!! 👏
LOL but it's somebody else's fault. Don't you see!
No, Dominion cast their ballot. Did you forget that already?
That's not the right mindset
@@Amal-ku9xq Maybe not, but it's the truth!
Amen. Enjoy your safe injection city
Hard to believe that making crime legal would encourage so many criminals to move there. It really boggles the mind.
i know right? hahhahaha
🥺😂 crazy
Yes. Who would think that? I mean the plan was so well thought out. And the long term benefits that were factored in were so promising.
But crime is down !!!! Dems love using that logic.
I really hope this city burns
No compassion for addicts.